today i'm going to talk about why i eat four eggs a day and why you should as well now you're probably wondering why i consider myself an egg spirt on eggs that's an excellent question sorry i just had to do that but it's primarily because i've been eating so many eggs for so many years that makes me an expert but there's some really interesting information about eggs and why you should be eating more of them now the first point i want to bring up is that you can't really tell how good an egg is by
the color of the egg yolk well at least recently because they actually use synthetic coloring now that they give chickens to color the egg yolk on exactly what the farmer wants and there's actually 15 different shades between yellow and orange that you can pick to determine what color your egg yolk is going to be so unfortunately the egg yolk nowadays doesn't really tell you about the amount of nutrition in that egg yolk they also use different colorings in the meat itself so you can turn like a pale white color chicken meat into either yellow or
a beige color so apparently consumers demand a certain color of their chicken meat and their egg yolks but if you're not using these color dyes and you look at the actual color of the yolk you can tell how much carotenoids present in that egg you can't tell the nutrition by the color of the shell okay because they come in different colors that doesn't give you too much data the nutrition of an egg and a chicken is determined by how they're raised and what they're fed and unfortunately chickens nowadays just have absolutely no flavor like the
chicken breast is bland they actually have to flavor it i'm not kidding next time you go to the store look at the label for chicken breast and you're going to notice it has natural flavorings or even artificial flavorings because you're trying to make this tasteless bland piece of meat taste more like chicken so unfortunately we have grown chickens for size and we want chickens that can grow fast because chickens are sold by the weight now in 2015 the cost of a chicken was like seven dollars okay now to me that's actually pretty cheap because i
mean you have to grow the chicken you have to take care of the chicken how are you gonna make any profit at all if you have to feed the chicken grain and most of these chickens that are sold conventionally are fed grain they're not allowed to go out and eat bugs or worms or any of that but in 1948 the cost of a chicken was like three dollars now if we compare that to the dollar now it would be like buying a chicken for 30 dollars and that is because the quality back then is much
greater than it is now now before i get into the benefits of egg i want to just quickly talk about different terms that they use for eggs so you have free range eggs right well what does that actually mean well it means that they're not in a cage they are cage-free but it doesn't really mean that they can go outside it just means that they have access to the outside and they don't define axis it could be some small little hole in the barn that they never find also the verification process on free range is
not followed up with an on-site inspection so there's a lot of great areas when you talk about free range and then when we get to cage free it means that they're just outside the cage which is a step up and what about grade a well that just means the shape of the shell is really nice and it has no cracks so it's really just a marketing thing like i'm sure you never go home and go wow honey i have some grade a eggs they're perfectly round and they have no cracks then you have pasteurized eggs
right that does not mean pasture raised okay raised on a pasture outside it means that they're heated which preserves them it makes them last longer and then you get a vegetarian fed right and yet this sounds very wonderful vegetarian fed means you're feeding them grains like soy and corn which are gmo so i would recommend getting organic pasta raised type eggs now what is better than that well buy your eggs for at a farmer's market or if you have a little bit of space raise your own heads and get your eggs that way and these
are the type of eggs that they produce they produce a lot of eggs even in the winter which they're normally not supposed to produce we have like 16 eggs every single day so we're still trying to figure out what to do with all these eggs but man there's such a big difference between these eggs that we're consuming and the eggs that you buy at the store and i'm doing a lot of experiments on growing animals and also growing vegetables testing certain things out in different soils feeding animals different things to see what produces the healthiest
animal and the healthiest plant and i will be releasing this on a new youtube channel but i will say that growing your own chickens using organic grains without corn and soy is pretty darn expensive so we're experimenting on different ways of feeding animals that are not just healthier but cheaper i mean check this out right here this is called fodder it's sprouted barley you start with a certain amount of barley seed and then you let it sprout for seven days and it increases in weight by seven times this is like crack for your chickens they
love it so i will keep you updated on that very very soon all right so now let's talk about the benefits of eggs and why you should be eating eggs and just realize i don't eat my eggs for breakfast i eat them at my lunch because i fast of course it's a late lunch it's probably around 2 2 30 maybe sometimes three o'clock so number one the protein in eggs is superior and what i'm talking about is the anabolic effect which means the ability of that egg to help build protein tissues in your body and
the percentage of how much that egg protein is converted into body protein like your muscles your joints and other proteins as well so if we exclude breast milk okay protein is at 48 so 48 is turned into body tissue if we're talking about meat or fish it's only 32 and when we talk about soy protein that's like 17 and as a side note egg white is only 17 when you add the yolk in there you get more utilization which is interesting and then whey protein is only 16 so what happens to the other part of
this protein well it's converted into glucose and used as fuel now there's another little thing about this i want to mention and it's called insulin index i talk about this in my book but insulin index is the scale of how a non-carbohydrate food influences insulin and whole eggs with the cholesterol have a much lower insulin effect than egg whites so the more that you take out fat and have it as a pure protein as in whey protein the higher the insulin spike so eggs if you compare that to anything else is basically the best protein
for you all right next point is choline choline is really good for your brain choline acts as a bile salt in your liver it helps break down cholesterol so it's a good antidote for gallstones it's a good antidote for a fatty liver and then we get to lecithin which is also another antidote for cholesterol to keep your cholesterol in check because eggs come with cholesterol and a lot of people are concerned about cholesterol in fact there was a study out that said that when you eat eggs it increases your risk for death from heart attacks
by i think 17 but i did a whole video on that i will put the link down below it's a ridiculous study based on a questionnaire i wouldn't even call it a study because this association was so weak and they didn't talk about the million other variables that could have caused heart attacks and without getting into it too much eggs will increase your hdl uh more than the ldl but that's for a different topic now the other cool thing about eggs is that they have a good amount of vitamin k2 which keeps the calcium out
of the arteries and keeps the calcium out of the joints and eggs also have vitamin d so vitamin d and vitamin k2 work together and there's not a lot of foods out there that will give you vitamin d eggs also have vitamin e good for the heart good for the skin and eggs are loaded with vitamin a the type that's extremely bioavailable and it's called retinol so part of these pigments in the vitamin a complex are like yellow orange so the deeper the color the more the vitamin a you're going to get and eggs have
omega-3 fatty acids okay especially if they're loud outside so they can eat worms and insects eggs are loaded with b vitamins b1 b2 b3 b6 b12 now i did mention that i feed my chickens a organic grain without the soy without the corn that grain is fermented for three days to release a lot of the b vitamins and other nutrients that are locked up in that grain and not only is that more nutritious you can feed them less because it helps their digestion eggs also have trace minerals and minerals eggs also have carotenoids okay that
is a nutrient-dense pigment that gives that yolk the color but it also has a lot of health benefits okay now the two big carotenoids are number one lutein which is yellow in color and zeaxanthin which is more orange both of these pigments greatly improve the eye in fact the greatest concentration of these carotenoids are in the eye so they support the lens the retina they help prevent macular degeneration they help reduce the blue light that you're exposed to with all your computers and cell phones etc but there's a lot of other benefits too for your
brain as well now one question that has been asked is how do you prepare an egg to maximize the nutrition in the egg because if you're going to heat it too much you might destroy some of the carotenoids and so poached or over easy would be a great way to do that or if you want scrambled what i'd recommend is crack the egg inside the pan let the whites turn a little white and then turn the heat down and then mix it up and scramble it after the white part has turned a bit white this
allows you to preserve a lot of these nutrients as compared to taking your egg in a bowl and mixing it up and then putting it in the frying pan so now that you know the benefits of eggs if you're a small person maybe you only have one or two eggs if you're a larger person have three or four and if you have any considerations about the cholesterol and eggs you gotta check out this video right here you
